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Food Addiction Clinical Treatment Program (FACT)

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Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Food Addiction

Treatments

Behavioral: 16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04373343
IRB00053663

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this current study is to establish the feasibility of, and preliminary support for, a clinical treatment program utilizing interventions from various empirically supported treatments for obesity-related eating disorders and substance use disorders

Full description

To establish the feasibility of recruiting, enrolling, and treating individuals who meet criteria for FA in a group behavioral intervention for 16 weeks. Data from the current study will be used for the purposes of further exploration of the FACT program in a larger randomized controlled trial. We hypothesize the study will demonstrate the feasibility of evaluating this treatment in future studies

Enrollment

2 patients

Sex

All

Ages

25+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age > 25
  • BMI >25
  • YFAS > 6/11 (severe range)
  • willing to commit to a 16 week group therapy program from 4 - 5:30 pm on Thursdays in Winston-Salem, NC
  • English speaking

Exclusion criteria

  • Current participation in professional weight loss program and unwillingness to suspend it for 16 weeks during treatment
  • obesity medications with exception of diabetes medication with weight loss benefit (ie metformin),
  • current nicotine use or substance use disorder (based on meeting the clinical cutoff for the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and/or Cannabis Use Disorder Identification Test
  • history of weight loss surgery,
  • current/history of severe mental illness (> 3 psychiatric hospitalizations since age 18,
  • schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder, or personality disorder),
  • current/history of lithium, abilify, saphris, vraylor, clozaril, latuda, zyprexa, seroquel, risperdal, or Geodon,
  • current pregnancy or breastfeeding,
  • prior diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, diagnosis of bulimia nervosa in the last 5 years,
  • high currents rates of restrictive eating disorder symptoms based on the Eating Disorder Diagnosis Scale (EDDS; (i.e., any endorsement of vomiting or laxative/diuretic use to manage weight and endorsement of fasting or excessive exercise more than 2 or 3 times a week)

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

2 participants in 1 patient group

16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program
Other group
Description:
16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program, first session will be 120 mins, all subsequent sessions will be 90 mins. Treatment will be led, at a minimum, by a full licensed psychologist
Treatment:
Behavioral: 16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program

Trial documents
1

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Shenelle Edwards-Hampton, PhD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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